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@Frozen Death Knight I may be wrong, but should you be using DAUB brushes in your collection? Paolo Limoncelli’s beautiful brushes are not Affinity’s, even though some may have been offered at some point as a free addition for purchasers of Affinity. To include any of them as part of a free download when we now obtain them by purchase would surely be illegal?

@nwhit . Good job! I am so glad that you are up and running.

@nwhit Ah ha! Here is the whiz I wrote to you about! @anon2 has offered what I hadn’t a clue about, except that I knew that there IS a way, if I HAD a clue! Best wishes!

Are you clicking outside your canvas? If you hold the spacebar down and click on the desktop you will get the Hand tool, so you can move the canvas back and forth or up and down. If you hold the spacebar while an object inside the canvas is highlighted (the four blue dots) then the arrow keys will do the job. Hope this will help.

@davidlower8 Two possible free font sources are "Cornucopia of Ornaments" and "Rough Fleurons" - both available from 1001freefonts.com in their "Decorative" category. Their website is a bit of a hassle to work through, but if you input the font name up at the top in the Search box, you should get right there. I have attached samples. The top one is from Cornucopia of Ornaments. Both fonts are accessed through the Glyph Browser.

@davidlower8 Here is a beautiful asset file which, if I remember correctly, was created and kindly offered to us by @firstdefence. You should be able to make some very nice swirls with these, for starters. Fleur parts.afassets

And what a wonderful, refreshing change you all are, versus the iceberg chilliness of the Adobe “tough bananas” approach to an inquiring customer. So appreciated!

Alfred is right, and so is @walt.farrell. And so is @prophet. And so is . . . @Angalanse if you are really interested in having your problem solved, you would spend a few minutes creating a document where your “problem” appears, and post it. Or post a document with the “problem” already there. It could be that like so many millions of people in this world who are exhausted with face masks, social distancing, closed offices, closed restaurants, closed schools, cancelled holidays, etc. etc. etc., you are conceivably taking out your frustration here. I am a retired publisher, editor, and author who has used Pagemaker and later Adobe Indesign extensively. I am now using, and loving Publisher. Publisher is young, and took some time to learn — not because it is lacking, but because it already has so many wonderful possibilities. They were not always easy to discover, but they are there. As time goes by, it will become ever-better. In my humble opinion (just mine) it is already velvet compared to the scratchy wool of Adobe. While discovering its many possibilities, I made my share of strange moves. Each time I ran afoul, someone — or many someones — on these forums was wonderfully helpful in sorting me out. I know that the very next time I am stuck — whether on Publisher, Photo, or Designer — there will be extremely generous and extraordinarily knowledgeable people (both users and Affinity developers) who will be there to sort me out. Please try?

Speaking of avatars, yours is charming. That is one tough little fella!

@JGL welcome to the forums! This may also help, in case you would like to organize your tools in your own way?

Delightful! And lovely colors!!

@GraficoDesign You are welcome! I hope you will have as much fun making image brushes as I have! 😷

@GraficoDesign your example appears to be made of 6 identical leaf patterns, placed around an elipse. If so, they would be “Image Brushes,” rather than the regular raster brushes. Unless you can find such an image brush somewhere, you would need to create your own. Presuming you are using Photo, you would create a single watercolor image of one bunch of leaves on a transparent background, using any of the watercolor brushes you have in your Brushes panel, then export your drawing as a PNG without background. Then go to the Brushes panel, click on the hamburger icon and choose New Image Brush, and you will be directed to select an image. (Although it would probably be a good idea to first select “New Category” and name that, so your new brush won’t vanish somewhere in the Brushes Categories.). Choose the exported PNG and your new brush will pop up in your new category. You can then edit it for the parameters you like. I am sure that professionals with tons of experience will be able to offer you much better solutions than mine, but since it is a weekend I thought I would take a stab at it. I have made umpteen flower brushes from peonies, daffodils, iris, magnolia blossoms, etc. from my garden for the fun of it. Now if only I could draw!!! Hope this helps a bit.

"Social distancing" began to pall several weeks ago. By now it is extremely Old Hat. I cannot produce something lovely for Share Your Work, but have been fiddling with creating swirls, which I have turned into some Styles. So here they are, in case anybody would like to use them. They make some interesting effects for text. Samples below third swirls.afstyles second swirls.afstyles first swirls.afstyles swirls images.pdf

Here is a favorite of mine for Asia-related things. It can be called Formal Script or Ondine. Ondine is a slightly looser (tracking) version of Formal Script.

Portrait of an eagle eye.😈

@bethanie Welcome to the forums!! Perhaps this process might help you. By the way, when you enter a title for a forum entry, it is not meant to be our names or titles (Dr. or Ms. or Gen.) but a subject that will attract helpers. This came from a topic related to True White Background Color. I do hope this may help you.

This last is definitely my favorite.

@Alfred is correct. But here is something you can use in place of your quote:

@firstdefence Hokey Pokey, surely?😷 Them thar’ gremlins again??

Right! I do the same thing, especially Styles, Assets, and Palettes. My Photo doesn’t need all my Assets, my Publisher definitely doesn’t need all my Palettes, and my Designer doesn’t need all my raster brushes. That is what “Edit in... “ is for, in my book. Of course, all these apps probably don’t really need me!!!!🤪

@thomaso thank you so much for posting this!!! I couldn’t remember how to do that, and floundered for a little trying to find this in the forums. I am sure that the procedure would work with copying from one version (1.8.3) to 1.8.4. Hopefully @JMichael will see your post. It would definitely save him scads of time!🥵

Wow!

I am of the better safe than sorry persuasion. And have only very occasionally discovered that an update — especially during the beta process — would wipe out my custom imports. I have separate folders in my computer for backup copies of everything I have imported for my Affinity Apps: assets, brushes, macros, palettes, styles, textures. Made them from each panel, using the “Export ...” option. So if your update to 1.8.4 accidentally misses some of your Library contents (or any other custom contents) you could easily import them again.

There will be. They are working on it.